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Mary-’Gusta

CHAPTER VII
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I picked up a sailor once who'd drifted around in a boat for a week and he couldn't remember nothin' of what happened after the first day or so.

If you'd told him he'd been swallowed by a mackerel he wouldn't have said no.

But I've helped kill a good many whales--yes, and I've helped cut 'em up, too--and I know what they look like inside.

No man, whether his name was Jonah or Jehoshaphat, could have lived three days in a whale's stomach.

How'd he breathe in there, eh?
Cal'late the whale had ventilators and a skylight in his main deck?
How'd the whale live all that time with a man hoppin' 'round inside him?
Think I'd live if I--if I swallowed a live mouse or somethin'?
No, sir-ee! Either that mouse would die or I would, I bet you! I've seen a whole parcel of things took out of a whale's insides and some of the things had been alive once, too; but they wasn't alive then; they was in chunks and part digested.


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